When you are walking, walk. And when sitting, sit don’t wobble.
— Buddhist saying
Things that stick in the mind
With all the excitement of working on Happy Guide, I could feel myself getting hyped at times, thoughts rushing around, difficulty focusing on other stuff.
This made me put a few previously unconnected ideas together. Many years ago I watched a movie… The Long Kiss Goodnight where Samuel L. Jackson’s character repeated to himself what he was doing as he was doing it!
I’m walking to the fridge, taking out the milk etc. Said it helped him to remember things or something like that…
Very strange and curious I thought… it stuck in my mind that did.
Well, amazing… in The Miracle of Mindfulness, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh tells us to do the same thing…
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